LBCC LibGuides: Viking Open Educational Resource Research Guide: Overview of Creative Commons

Overview of Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools. Creative Commons licenses are not an alternative to copyright. They work alongside copyright and enable you to modify your copyright terms to best suit your needs.

-- From Creative Commons website

Creative Commons Search Tool

Use this prototype to find images that you can use and remix across several open archives such as:

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Europeana
New York Public Library
Rijksmuseum

Types of Licenses

The licenses below and their descriptions come from the About the Licenses page of Creative Commons.

License Types

Choosing and Attributing Licenses

Things to Consider Before Licensing Your Work
- Outlines things to think about before applying Creative Commons license to your material, or use Creative Commons-licensed materials.

Choose A License
- Contains information on how to choose the appropriate license for your work.

Marking Your Work with CC License
- Learn how to mark your work with a Creative Commons license.
Open Licenses Step-by-Step
- Provides basic overview and description of the licensing process

Best Practices for Attribution
- Provides some good (and not so good) examples of attribution.

Open Attribution Builder
- Easily cite open materials. This tool will automatically generate the attribution for you.

Creative Commons License Attribution Video

Creative Commons Licence

Lansing Community College (LCC) Library Research Guide on Open Educational Resources (OER) by Regina Gong is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.